The campaign for fair admissions to schools
Margaret Tulloch from Comprehensive Future sets out the challenges of ensuring fair schools admissions under proposals in the new education white paper
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Where will the NHS go from here?
Director of the Socialist Health Association, Martin Rathfelder, discusses the future of the NHS.
Civil service complacency on black applicants is not good enough
David Lammy MP comments on recent figures revealing that Black applicants to the Civil Service fast track have barely a one per cent chance of being recruited.
Fox News caught distorting climate change debate. Again
Fox News has been caught again distorting the facts through media manipulation, this time on climate change, reports exec director of Climatico Niel Bowerman.
IFS: Government not on track to meet child poverty target
Poverty among both children and working-age adults is set to increase significantly from 2013/14, analysis from the Institute for Fiscal Studies has revealed.
Questions for the government over special needs funding
Laurence Turner asks questions over the future of Special Educational Needs provision, and the government’s ability to offer a ‘full and equal share’ to all.
Pickles’s meddle and populism bill
Jessica Studdert, political adviser to the Labour group at the Local Govt Assoc, examines Eric Pickles’s meddling in the very localism he claims to champion.
Pickles using smoke and mirrors to hide scale of cuts to councils
Shadow communities minister Barbara Keeley argues Eric Pickles is hiding the true scale of the cuts to councils, which hit the most deprived areas the hardest.
Pickles cuts grants to councils by 10% – and by 18% over 2 years
Philip Walker unmasks Eric Pickles’s sleight of hand to conceal a 10% cash cut in grant funding for council services in 2011/12 – an 18% cut over two years.
High time for action to end this sweatshop shame
It is high time for action to crack down on sweatshops, rather than more empty promises from companies and politicians, says War on Want’s Paul Collins.